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Prison Notes of a Freedom Rider
Martinson, Robert | January 6, 1962 issue

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This article describes an account of the "jail-in," campaign in the U.S. The campaign developed into a prolonged, nation-wide campaign to fill the jails of Mississippi. This strategic shift in emphasis-from Freedom Ride to "jail-in" was improvised under great pressure as a response to the unyielding tactics of Southern officialdom. Any form of direct action in the South today may lead to jailings. Nevertheless, the "jail-in" , a deliberate, planned effort to fill the jails-is something new. On a small scale, the jail-in received its most severe test in the Maximum Security cell block of the State Penitentiary at Mississippi.

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CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; JAILS; PRISONS; PRISONERS; CORRECTIONAL institutions; DETENTION of persons; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED States
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